21 June, 2016

Podemos: If we win and blackmail us, it will be the end of Europe

The
MEP with Podemos, Lola Sánchez, spoke to journalist and SYRIZA MEP,
Stelios Kouloglou, for the campaign of Podemos, the coalition with
the United Left and the Greens and gave her own estimates for the
outcome of the coming elections in Spain. She also spoke on how a
possible government of the Left will deal with the pressure from
Brussels. She supported that the economic weight of Spain is quite
big, as it is the fourth economic power in the EU, so, they will not
do the same things with Spain as they did with Greece. In case they
will blackmail a new government of the Left,, they will lose, it will
be the end of Europe and they know it.

Sánchez
expressed her optimism about the result of the oncoming elections in
Spain. She said that she is certain that the Leftist
coalition will be at least the second power in votes, but also that
this coalition of Podemos with the United Left and the Greens to
participate united in the elections, gave many hopes to the citizens.
As a result, she concluded that the Leftist coalition has good
chances even to win the elections.

Sánchez also pointed among other things:

People that
used to vote Podemos, United Left or the Greens in previous years are
super-happy with the Coalition of these three parties because this is
common sense. They have the same objectives, as they are the only
force against austerity, against neoliberalism.

It's
impossible to have a debate with people lying all the time. This is
not the politics that have been applied in the last four years in
Spain. So, you can't say that you defend public services, or that you
defend workers, etc., because you have not been doing that. However,
all the polls by the media showed that Iglesias have won the debate
and they were panicked by this fact.

The media
are using the same argument, also in Spain, referring, for example,
to Venezuela. They say that with Podemos Spain will become Venezuela.
They also refer to Iran and North Korea.

[Note:
Such stupidly simplified arguments have been used all the time also
in Greece by the neoliberal parrots in the media and neoliberal
trolls on the internet. Even now, after Tsipras has been forced to
sign everything that Greece's creditors demanded, they insist that
SYRIZA may transform Greece into North Korea! The propaganda by the
neoliberal dictatorship everywhere, is really unbelievable.]

Since
Podemos were absolutely blocked by the mainstream media they turned
to internet and social media to communicate especially with the young
people and make their program known, without media interference.

[Note:
reminds a lot the Bernie Sanders case in the United States.]

For example,
the media are excluding Podemos from a discussion on TV about TTIP
agreement because they know that a different opinion will be heard,
other than that promoted by the corporate lobbyists.

The
referendum in Britain will not have any influence to the Spanish
voters.

The
Coalition with Podemos doesn't really want to break Spain. They only
want Catalans to have the freedom to decide, like the British with
Brexit, or the Scottish. They have the right to decide.

After
Podemos was born, one of the biggest bankers of Spain said that maybe
another Podemos of the Right should be created. A conservative, or, a
liberal Podemos. A few months later, Ciudadanos had a lot of money
for a big campaign and promotion in the media. So, the money came
from the banks. They are financing this liberal party, everyone knows
it. Everybody knows the nexus between the bankers and Ciudadanos.
They are super-liberals, deeply neoliberals, but they are not brave
enough to say that because in Spain we have been suffering by the
austerity policies, etc. So, they know that they can't say straight
that they want less state, less money for public health and
education. So, they are full of empty messages: we don't want
corruption, we want a better Spain, we can do things better, etc.

[Note:
the almost identical situation in Greece is expressed by the
relatively new River (Potami) party of the former journalist Stavros
Theodorakis, which seems that it is a creation of the Greek
banking-media
establishment]

The
Socialists are quite lost. They don't know who is the enemy. The
Socialist party in Spain bends to the Right. As we've seen in the
European parliament, what they vote and defend shows that they are
not Socialists anymore. Bankers, investors and so on, are asking for
a big coalition with People's party and the Socialist party.

Rajoy wrote
a letter to Juncker, asking for more time. He was in the middle of
campaign, so he promised that after the elections he would pay, he
would make the cuts. Now he says that he will not make further cuts,
so he lies again.

The economic
weight of Spain is quite big, as it is the fourth economic power in
the EU, so, they will not do the same things with Spain as they did
with Greece. In case they will blackmail a new government of the
Left,, they will lose, it will be the end of Europe and they know it.
Brussels should understand that money can wait, people can't wait.